Learner Development

Listen to Ruth Phillips, an Academic and Study Skills Tutor at MMU, interview Rob Drummond, Professor of Sociolinguistics at MMU, about academic voice, accent, and his new book 'You're All Talk: Why We Are What We Speak'. It's described as an exploration of 'the enormous diversity in how language is spoken to reveal extraordinary insights into how humans operate: how we perceive (a

Listen to Victoria Herod, an Academic and Study Skills Tutor (Maths and Statistics Specialist) from the Learner Development Team, discuss the key elements when writing up quantitative findings, including inferential testing considerations and how to structure them. Check out the ‘Writing up Inferential Testing Results’ guidance on the Academic Study Skills Moodle page: https:/

Listen to Academic and Study Skills Tutor Phil O'Brien interview Ellie Lloyd-Davies, Widening Participation Manager, and current MMU student, and First Generation Scholar and Ambassador, Reece Buckley about the First Generation Programme. To learn more about the programme visit: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/how-to-apply/first-in-your-family-to-university

Listen to Phil O'Brien, an Academic and Study Skills Tutor from the Learner Development Team, discuss the key elements of a literature review and how to structure one. MMU library sources on literature reviews: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/library/referencing-and-study-support/literature-reviews

Listen to Aurélie Cauchard, an Academic and Study Skills Tutor at MMU, interview Arran Stibbe, a Professor in Ecological Linguistics at the University of Gloucester and creator of the course ‘The Stories We Live By’. The open resource course encourages us to rethink how we can use language in different ways to build a more sustainable world. Therefore, this episode examines th

Listen to Phil O'Brien, an Academic and Study Skills Tutor from the Learner Development Team, discuss some of the basics of presentations. He considers effective presentation structure, examines some key skills used in presentation delivery, and explains how best to present your discussion using visuals and verbal descriptions.

Listen to Writing Project Tutor Glen Brown and Academic and Study Skills Tutor Louise Livesey discuss some of the common queries we get from students who submit work to our Writing Feedback service. In conversation with tutor Phil O'Brien, they discuss assignment structure, criticality, writing style, and how to get additional support to help improve your writing. Links mentioned

Hanna Zack Miley and Smajo Bešo join Chad McDonald, Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor at MMU, and Amy Williams, from the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, New York, for this special episode to discuss writing about experiences of genocide. Hanna was born in 1932 into a Jewish family who lived in the Eifel region of Germany. As Nazi violence again

Listen to Phil O'Brien, an Academic and Study Skills Tutor from the Learner Development Team, discuss some of the basics of essay structure. He looks at what should go into an introduction, conclusion, and in each paragraph as well as considering how to use evidence and what types of essay structures are best for critical analysis.

Academic and Study Skills Tutor Phil O'Brien is joined by Curator Stephanie Boydell and Archivist Jeremy Parrett from Special Collections at MMU. They discuss the importance of archival materials and collections, these spaces as both critical and creative locations, and the role of both for developing critical understandings of history and contemporary society. Click the links be